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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

Bernard Malamud

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Dark Experiences Mystical Self
And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing

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